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8015 Detail
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, JUE
Shang dynasty
The vessel is raised on three splayed, blade-like legs supporting a
body of elongated, globular form and vertical orientation, the left wall
with a simple loop handle, the surface without decoration save for
three raised horizontal bands encircling the upper quadrant, the mouth
with a long, U-shaped spout at the front and a triangular projection at
the back, the rim issuing a pair of tubular, vertical posts with whorl-
cast caps, the vessel covered all over with green, brown and blue
encrustations, the body with a single-character inscription facing the
handle.
7in (17.7cm) high

US$8,000 - 12,000

商 青銅爵

Provenance
Purchased F. Kusaka, Shogado, Tokyo, 14 December 1958

See a very similar jue vessel, with nearly identical decoration, sold at
Bonhams San Francisco, 16 December 2014, sale 21820, lot 8004.

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